Strong to merger with Hermitage??

[Ric Flair Wooooooo]

Rumour been going on for a couple years now.. heard they the grapevine that it could happen 17-18.. have anybody else heard anything??

[HorseFeathers]

Probably be good for both schools? But would el Dorado and/or crossett be willing to let it happen?

[Wildman5]

Would they be the strong hermits

[Wildcatalumni21]

Boy Hampton is gonna be upset 

[Lionbro20]

Some more hermdogs?🤔🤔

[baseball13]

Boy Hampton is gonna be upset 

Y would Hampton be upset?

[Backwoods Bart]

I like the sound of that.

[flawlessthoughts]

Would be interesting in 3 to 4 years.

[Wildcatalumni21]

Y would Hampton be upset?

It's a joke buddy, poking fun at all the consolidation comments of Hampton and Hermitage

[Dayton Kitchens]

Doesn't the distance between them as well as crossing county lines (IIRC against state law without waivers) make that problematical at best?

Also wouldn't they have to get the permission basically from El Dorado to do so?

[dawgpound]

Be a long bus ride unless they built a new school at Moro bay

[bigworm]

Boy Hampton is gonna be upset 

Nope. Just more to pick from

[flawlessthoughts]

Be a long bus ride unless they built a new school at Moro bay

As long as the ride from Johnsville.

[switch hitting tackle]

Doesn't the distance between them as well as crossing county lines (IIRC against state law without waivers) make that problematical at best?

Also wouldn't they have to get the permission basically from El Dorado to do so?

Arkansas Board of Education over rules all districts decisions. Hughes, which is in St. Francis County wanted to merge with Forrest City, also in St.Francis. Board of Education wouldn't allow it, made them Merge with West Memphis in Crittenden County, 27 miles away.

[AirWarren]

Why in the world would they merge with any of these schools mentioned when Warren is 12 miles up the road?

[Dayton Kitchens]

Why in the world would they merge with any of these schools mentioned when Warren is 12 miles up the road?

same reason Norphlet agreed to be annexed into arch rival Smackover when El Dorado was about the same distance the other direction.

[AirWarren]

same reason Norphlet agreed to be annexed into arch rival Smackover when El Dorado was about the same distance the other direction.

And what is the rationale?

[Wonderdog]

And what is the rationale?

To be able to keep both schools open. Smackover-Norphlet, Emerson-Taylor-Bradley. Instead of surrendering their school to then have to become a lumberjack or wildcat (ED)

[BO_KNOWS]

Boy Hampton is gonna be upset 

Since y'all live up there and don't know what has gone on around here in the past 15 years Hampton has lost good football players to hermitage , weather it be their parents moved over there  or the kid had to move in with a aunt and uncle that lived there.

[dawgpound]

In 1999 there was several off my team that left and went over there

[green-eagle]

Strong best choice will be to join El Dorado.... El dorado is large enough to absorb the student body and the money/teacher issues....hermitage, PC and Crossett is not...

Crossett is getting a new school but its will not be large enough to absorb that much student body...the Crossett's area is experiencing a reduction of population and the new school was redesign to reflect that reduction so that the necessary Millage increase would pass.....

[Dayton Kitchens]

Strong best choice will be to join El Dorado...

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Having been at Strong a couple of years I think I can safely say this is far and away the most UNPOPULAR option.

[flawlessthoughts]

In 1999 there was several off my team that left and went over there

Like who?

[dawgpound]

Bruce Bryant and Josh Strickland

[flawlessthoughts]

Bruce Bryant and Josh Strickland

I remember Bruce.

[AA Insider]

Timothy baltch, Chad Williams and twello brown in the mid to late 2000s also. It's been going on for years

[flawlessthoughts]

Timothy baltch, Chad Williams and twello brown in the mid to late 2000s also. It's been going on for years

Chad didn't move to play football his family moved & still lives in Hermitage. Hermitage is home to Twello Brown also but he transferred to play sports with his family then moved back. I'd agree with you on Balch. Then again if I remember correctly he got into some trouble at Hampton & was forced to transfer very young. Nah, I think that was his brother so their mom sent all of them to Hermitage. Anyway, Balch played Jr & Sr high ball at Hermitage. If he played a down in Hampton it was pee wee ball. But yes he his mom & brothers still lived in Hampton.

[AA Insider]

Yes you are right about all that but my point was kids have moved back and forth between the 2 schools for years

[flawlessthoughts]

Yes you are right about all that but my point was kids have moved back and forth between the 2 schools for years

True.. I remember a few leaving Hermitage to play basketball in Hampton. Never heard anything about any of the past transfers. This Monta situation left a lot of us stunned. The fact that Hermitage would want to ruin his career & Hamptons season opened eyes. It's playing out well for Hampton & the transfers though.